James Egan re The Tower of Newport + John Dee

Hey friends, I just listened to the Cort Lindahl episode and the whole time I was thinking about what would happen if the work of Jim Egan was involved for comparison.

Jim has been studying the Tower of Newport on site and in person for at least one decade, maybe longer. He eventually became so involved that he opened a museum facing onto Touro park where the tower sits.

Basically, he believes it was built neither by vikings nor by Benedict Arnold but by none other than John Dee, who was sent to Newport by the queen in the early 16th century. Moreover, the tower is a horologium (a la the calendar interpretation of stone henge) as well as a massive camera obscura. Better yet, the tower exhibits proportions that explain John Dee's most enigmatic work, the Monas Hieroglyphica (which Jim has translated from latin to english, even Dee's diagrams). These proportions encode a figure illustrating the zodiac and other occult concepts, but they also exhibit heavy upper level numerology.

Which is where his work gets super weird and compelling, since his background is optics/photography and mathematics. He contends that the numerology and operations encoded in the tower are the driving force behind the work of Buckminster Fuller. He's laid out the full story in a few girthy books.

All of this Jim explained to me in person during a gratis two-hour presentation that resulted from the thirty-minute tour I had scheduled. Conspiracy kids, if you ever get the chance to visit this man's museum, you will have a hell of a time playing with his buckminster solids, multiple camera obscurae, in depth diagrams on the floor, optical illusory mirrors, etc. He's unbelievably well researched and a lot of fun to talk to, and he could definitely benefit from some publicity.

Anyway, here's his website: http://newporttowermuseum.com/

I think this would be a great episode, really cross-sectional.